There are some mathematical models similar to a Voronoi diagram, which would make districts convex polygons.

With the new gerrymandering 2.0 Ohio is proposing, soon all of their cities will be “red” (on paper)

A small town, or a suburb of a city that is described as “a great place to raise a family”. From what I have seen, that usually means one of two things:

1. The town/suburb is closer to the city, but is wealthy, real estate is expensive, usually very car-centric, which excludes anyone poor (or even middle class, sometimes).

2. The town/village is far away from the nearest city, not necessarily wealthy, but usually ran by a group of people that know each other (good old boys club), probably heavy on religion or other “traditional” values.